Freeberg Forum, LC 62, Kravis Center, CMC

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  • Mike Izbicki

    Freeberg Forum, LC 62, Kravis Center, CMC

  • Dagan Karp: Tropical Geometry and Moduli Spaces

    Freeberg Forum, LC 62, Kravis Center, CMC

    In this talk, I'll attempt to give an introduction to the beautiful world of tropical geometry. As an application, I'll describe work with Siddarth Kannan (Pomona 2018) and Shiyue Li (Mudd 2017) using tropical geometry to compute the cohomology of certain moduli spaces, called heavy/light Hassett spaces, which are of interest in a wide range of […]

  • A competent translation/a pitiful bungle: The Foundations of Geometry (Jemma Lorenat)

    Freeberg Forum, LC 62, Kravis Center, CMC

    David Hilbert's Grundlagen der Geometrie is a rare example of a historical mathematics text that is still profitably read today and continues to inspire research in mathematics, computer science, and philosophy. The effort of publishing an English translation of Hilbert in 1902 involved a diverse swath of the American mathematical community.  Edgar Jerome Townsend completed a first draft […]

  • Edray Goins: Indiana Pols Forced to Eat Humble Pi, The Curious History of an Irrational Number

    Freeberg Forum, LC 62, Kravis Center, CMC

    In 1897, Indiana physician Edwin J. Goodwin believed he had discovered a way to square the circle, and proposed a bill to Indiana Representative Taylor I. Record which would secure Indiana’s the claim to fame for his discovery. About the time the debate about the bill concluded, Purdue University professor Clarence A. Waldo serendipitously came […]

  • Christopher Strickland: Modeling the prescription opioid epidemic

    Freeberg Forum, LC 62, Kravis Center, CMC

    Opioid addiction has become a national health crisis in recent years, with involvement in 66% of all drug overdose deaths in 2016 and high economic costs. In contrast to the dynamics of a classic disease or illicit drug epidemic, opioid addiction has its roots in legal, prescription medication - a fact which greatly increases the […]

  • Energy optimization on the sphere

    Freeberg Forum, LC 62, Kravis Center, CMC

    Many problems, arising in discrete and metric geometry, signal processing, physics, etc, can be reformulated as questions of optimizing discrete or continuous measures. We shall review some of such conjectures, as well as approaches to determining optimal (or at least good) point distributions and measures, and connections to other problems, such as discrepancy, sphere packings […]

  • Nano Knot theory, methods to study tiny knot in nature

    Freeberg Forum, LC 62, Kravis Center, CMC

    Knotting in living organisms is a feature that is visible to the careful observer of biological life.  Since the 1970’s, with the increasing power of electron microscopes, scientists have been able to capture images of such structures in living organisms at near atomic levels.  We will explore the mathematics of knotting that has provided tools study these […]